HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

lvmerge(1M) lvmerge(1M)

(Requires Optional HP MirrorDisk/UX Software)

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

If LANG is not speciﬁed or is null, it defaults to "C" (see lang(5)).

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all internationalization variables default to

"C" (see environ(5)).

EXAMPLES

Merge

/dev/vg00/lvol1b

with /dev/vg00/lvol1

. Data in /dev/vg00/lvol1b

will be

overwritten by

/dev/vg00/lvol1

and /dev/vg00/lvol1b

will be removed.

lvmerge /dev/vg00/lvol1b /dev/vg00/lvol1

Merge /dev/vg01/lvol1b

with /dev/vg01/lvol1

. Data in /dev/vg01/lvol1b

will be

overwritten by

/dev/vg01/lvol1

and /dev/vg01/lvol1b

will be removed. If the bitmap does

not exist, then mark all extents associated with

/dev/vg01/lvol1b as stale and complete without

resynchronizing.

lvmerge -s /dev/vg01/lvol1b /dev/vg01/lvol1

WARNINGS

lvmerge does not check to guarantee that the allocation policy of master_lv_path is preserved after the

merge.